Here you go, sent it to Tim, thought I posted here:
Tim
Wanted to update you with my findings so far, does not look good for transferring shares into any established well know brokers, have you heard form anyone else about any possibilities?
Thanks//Karl
My chat with Fidelity - they are a NO for accepting FLES shares
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Fidelity: Thanks for chatting in! My name's Matt. How can I help today?
You: Hi Matt, I have a very specific question for you please
Fidelity: Sure
You: I purchased shares of a company with ticker FLES through a Reg A+ offering. This share currently trades on the OTCQB exchange and the shares are being held by ClearTrust LLC as the Transfer Agent. Would you accept transfer of these shares into a Fidelity account?
Fidelity: Let me check into this. Fidelity deems penny stocks to be anything under $3 per share, which this is currently.
Fidelity: So I understand clearly, you want to do a transfer of assets of these shares, correct?
You: Correct, I want to transfer these share from the Transfer Agent noted to a Fidelity Account
Fidelity: Thank you
Fidelity: Let me check on this for you
Fidelity: The only criteria for rejection on this security that I'm unsure on is if it has a market cap below $25 mn.
Fidelity: I'm not seeing any data on shares outstanding to be able to calculate market cap, likely because it's OTCBB.
You: Its OTCQB and the market cap is below $25 million
Fidelity: The security has traded today which leads me to believe it's ok to transfer.
Fidelity: Ok, if it's below a $25 mn market cap, unfortunately a transfer of assets of the holding will reject.
You: And that is a standard policy, the $25 million
Fidelity: Correct. If you initiated a transfer of assets to bring it in, unfortunately it would reject currently.
Andrew at 13:46, Mar 25: Thank you for choosing TradeStation. How may I assist you today?
You at 13:47, Mar 25: I recently purchased shares of a stock, ticker FLES, through a Reg A+ offering, trading on the OTCQB exchange at about $2.50 per share and currently held by CLearTrust LLC as the transfer agent and I would like to transfer them to a Trade Station account.
You at 13:48, Mar 25: Is this something I can do with Trade Station
Andrew at 13:48, Mar 25: We cannot accept the transfer of OTC shares
You at 13:49, Mar 25: Do you know of any brokers that can?
You at 13:49, Mar 25: And what are the reasons why Trade Station cannot
Andrew at 13:49, Mar 25: Unfortunately I do not
Andrew at 13:49, Mar 25: Most of the bigger brokerage firms will not accepts OTC shares.
